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Columbia students defy deadline to disband pro-Palestinian encampment (www.bbc.co.uk)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Even as some were suspended, student activists gathered around their pro-Palestinian encampment.

Archived version: https://archive.ph/kJ1Xz

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Those rapscallions! How can they disobey like that!?! It's almost as if they are thumbing their noses at the powers that be! Unbelievable!

That being said, if you're drawing national attention with your protest, you're doing it right. Keep it up.

[+] [email protected] -56 points 7 months ago (2 children)

By this logic, mass shooters make super-phenomenal job.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Your logic is fucked six ways to Sunday. Shooting people =/ peaceful protest.

[+] [email protected] -38 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Love your first sentence :)

But I never did say that they are the same. There is a way to point on logical fallacy by taking the logic to the extreme. Also, we may argue about semantics, whether to call protest peaceful or not, but it is a disturbance and against the university rules. There are ways to protest without violating those.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

There is nothing to take to the extreme here. The comment was, "if you're drawing national attention with your protest, you're doing it right". Shooting people is in no way, shape, or form a protest.

Can you tell me how this protest is different from the ones about Vietnam War or South African Apartheid or Iraq War?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

here is a way to point on logical fallacy by taking the logic to the extreme.

The problem with this statement is that it requires you to actually use logic to get there, something your original comment sorely lacks.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

When you use hyperbole like that you will only win idiots to your side. Maybe that's what you want. But you are literally comparing this protest to mass murder, whether you are being sincere or not. If you're not then you have no point. Is breaking university rules as bad as mass murder? No.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

работай над своим английским

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

"Work on your English"

Look up the word hypocrisy since you're the expert.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Full support for the protestors

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago

At the same time, amid alleged incidents of hate speech, harassment and threats of violence by some participants, Jewish students have voiced concern about their safety on campus.

proceeds to not point to a single incident or even quote a Jewish Columbia student voicing concern

almost makes you think the crackdown on and media reaction to these students doesn't have anything to do with their "antisemitism" thinkin-lenin